[Chicago-talk] Parsing APA-format citations

[Joel Berger]

While I'm all for supporting Perl and it seems like you have found a Perl
way to do it, I thought I'd just offer one (possible) alternative,
depending on what your actual end goal is.

During my Ph.D. research I found the program zotero to do bibliography
management and I'm not sure what I would have done without it. I kept all
my citation in there and I was able to export them to BibTeX for use in my
thesis. I don't know what its export formats are, but I presume they have
something that can output simple formatted text. Anyway its worth taking a
look if you are doing any kind of project with a bibliography, I highly
recommend it!

https://www.zotero.org/

Cheers,
Joel Berger


On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 9:28 AM Alan Mead <amead at alanmead.org> wrote:

> On 5/7/2018 9:23 AM, Mike Fragassi wrote:
> > Well, if you can create targets for the in-text citations, and feed
> > the text body into the parser to look for these, you could then take
> > the hashrefs and use them to generate a skeleton of a bibliography
> > that you can fill out later. I.e. for a text reference of "see Foo and
> > Bar (2001)" you'll only have the author(s) and year for what's in the
> > text, but you could take that, feed it into a template system like
> > Template::Toolkit, and spit out a bibliography with 'TODO' or 'XXX' in
> > the missing fields:
> >    Foo, XXX. & Bar XXX. (2001)  XXX_TITLE. XXX_JOURNAL, XXX_VOL,
> > XXX_PAGES.
> > Then go back and fill in the missing fields.
> > And when done with writing both the text and the bibliography, you can
> > rescan both to check that there's no mismatches. Of course, that won't
> > help you if in one place you site Foo & Bar (2001) but you meant to
> > site Foo & Bar (2002), and you do also correctly site both of these
> > elsewhere.
>
> This is precisely what I want to do. The first step is to create the
> skeleton and your suggestion to use Biblio::Citation::Parser will make
> the second step much easier.
>
> -Alan
>
>
> --
>
> Alan D. Mead, Ph.D.
> President, Talent Algorithms Inc.
>
> science + technology = better workers
>
> http://www.alanmead.org
>
> I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe...
> functions on fire in a copy of Orion.
> I watched C-Sharp glitter in the dark near a programmable gate.
> All those moments will be lost in time, like Ruby... on... Rails... Time
> for Pi.
>
>           --"The Register" user Alister, applying the famous
>             "Blade Runner" speech to software development
> _______________________________________________
> Chicago-talk mailing list
> Chicago-talk at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago-talk
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/chicago-talk/attachments/20180508/798a1544/attachment.html>